[recoll-user] recoll 1.18.0 pre-release

From: <jfd@xxxxxxxxxx>

To: recoll-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:12:38 +0200

Hi,
Recoll 1.18.0 is ready.
As this release contains significant code changes, it would be great if a
few adventurous souls could give it a try before I perform the general
release and the kind Linux packagers work on it.
Main changes in the release:
- The searches can now be made sensitive to character case and
accents. This is optional, and off by default.
- Information about page numbers is retained for a number of formats, most
importantly PDF. There is a new snippets window which allows starting
the viewer on the right page, and with a primed search string, so that
starting a search will instantly highlight the search term. This
currently only works fully with the "evince" viewer (because it has the
appropriate command line options). Okular has only partial support.
- Advanced search history is retained. You can walk the history by using
the Up and Down arrows in the advanced search window.
- etc.
More detail in the release notes: http://www.recoll.org/release-1.18.html
There are binary packages ready for Ubuntu and Mint Linux users on the
recoll "experimental" PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/experiments
To install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:recoll-backports/experiments
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install recoll
To revert:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/recoll-backports-experiments*
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove recoll
sudo apt-get install recoll
You can also do this in one of the graphical front-ends of course, but I
find it rather more difficult...
For other distributions, you can build from the source code:
http://www.recoll.org/recoll-1.18.0.tar.gz
Or, if this is complicated for you, send me a message with your Linux
distribution and version, and, thanks to VirtualBox, I should be able to
build a package for you.
Cheers,
jf